Tailor&#39;s measuring device.



PATENTED SEPT. 11, 19-06.

A. M. ROLAND.

TAILORS MEASURING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 13110.5. 1905.

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PATENTED SEPT. 11, 1906.

A. M. ROLAND. TAILORS MEASURING DEVICE.

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A TTORNEYS ARTHUR [\IALASKA ROLAND, OF HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII.

TAILORS MEASURING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1906.

Application filed December 5, 1905. Serial No. 290.348.

To (0. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR MALAsKA Ro-.

LAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Honolulu, in the Island of Oahu and Territory of Hawaii, have invented a new and Improved Tailors Measuring Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to devices especially adapted for taking measurements for coats and vests; and the purpose of the invention is to provide a straight-edge adapted to be passed horizontally beneath the arm, carrying a sliding shoulder-conformer and an ad justable scale-arm for the breast, together with a tape-measure pivotally attached to the shoulder-conformer in such manner that measurements may be taken by the tapemeasure in any direction from one point.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device upon a form and viewed from the front. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device upon a form and viewed from the back. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device. Fig. 4 is a front elevation thereof, and Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal section taken practically on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

A represents a straight-edge of sufficient length to be passed beneath the arm of the person being measured and extend out a required distance at the back, andsaid straight, edge occupies a horizontal position in use, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A conformer blade B is used in connection with said straight-edge, the said blade being so curved as to fit to the shoulder of the person at the back adjacent to the arm-hole and is therefore herein denominated a shoulder conformer-blade. This shoulder conformerblade B is attached to or made integral with a sleeve 10, which sleeve is of such shape as to loosely receive the straight-edge A, so that the sleeve and connected shoulder conformerblade may be moved in direction of the ends of the said straight-edge.

One end of a tape-measure 11 is pivotally attached to the rear face of the shoulder conformer-blade B at a point where the said blade connects with said sleeve 10, and this pivotal connection is usually efi'ected through the medium of a pin or stud 12, which. may be made removable, if desired. A hook 13 is formed at the upper end of the shoulder conformer-blade B, the metal being bent outward and downward, as is shown in Fig. 3. and this hook receives an elastic ring-band 14, which in practice is carried over the shoulder to the front of the person being measured.

A sleeve 15 is located at the forward end of the straight-edge A, and this sleeve preferably extends from top to bottom of the straight-edge and is made ofmetalbent upon itself to form the said sleeve 15, and the ends 15 of the metal arebrought close together and are made to enter a longitudinal slot in the forward end of the said straightedge,

being held in position in the straight-edge by one or more pins 16, as is clearly shown in s Fig. 5. A rod O is held to turn in the sleeve 15, the saidrod being reduced in diameter where it enters the said. sleeve, so that if the sleeve 15 is fixed in position in the straight edge A the rod while it may be freely turned cannot be separated from the straight-edge. This rod at its upper end is curved, as is shown at 17 in Figs. 1 and 3, to conform to the breast of the person being measured at the shoulder, and at the upper end of the rod O a flat scale-arm D is secured, which scalearm extends from the said rod O at an angle of about forty-five degrees, as this angle has been found most advantageous in taking the breast measurements for coats and vests. Therefore this scale-arm D is practically a breast scale-arm. A scale 18 is produced upon the outer face of the arm D, which scale is lined to represent eighths of an inch, and the lines or divisions of the scale are placed at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the lower edge of the said scale-arm D, as is shown in Fig. 4.

In operation the straight-edge is placed beneath the arm of the person to be measured, and the rod O is drawn close to the breast adjacent to the shoulder, as is shown in Fig. 1, and then the shoulder conformerblade B is pushed forward on the straightedge A until it iits close to the shoulder of i scale-arm D, preferably adjacent to its connection with the rod 0. When the device has been thus adjusted to the person, the back, breast, and shoulder measurements may be taken through the medium of the tape 11, as the tape may be carried in any direction, front or back, and in taking the front measurements the scale on the tape is read in connection with the scale on the scalearm D.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A tailors measuring device, consisting of a straight-edge, a shoulder conformer-blade adjustably mounted on the said straight- .edge, a breast-rod mounted to turn at the forward end of the straightedge,'a scalearm carried by the breast-rod and diverging at an acute angle therefrom, and means for connecting the shoulder conformer-blade and the said scale-arm.

2. A tailors measuring device, consisting of a straight-edge, a shoulder conformer-blade adjustably mounted on the said straightedge, a tape-measure pivotally connected with the shoulder conformer-blade, a breastrod adjustably mounted on the said straightedge, a scale-arm diverging at an acute angle fromthe said breast-rod, and a connecting medium for the shoulder conformer-blade and the said scale-arm.

3. A tailors measuring device, consisting of a straight-edge, a shoulder conformerblade mounted to slide on the said straight edge, a breastrod rearwardly curved at its upper end, and adjustably mounted at the for-ward end of the straight-edge, a tapemeasure pivotally connected with the said shoulder conformerblade, a' scale-arm carried by the upper portion of the breast-rod, which scale-arm is at an acute angle to the said breast-rod, the scale on said scale-arm being at a corresponding angle to the longi- 'tudinal edges thereof, and a flexible connection between the shoulder conformer-blade and the said scale-arm.

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR MALASKA ROLAND. Witnesses:

S. LEVINGSTON, GEO. R. KILLEN. 

